Rape and Revenge: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''This woman has just [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition]]... but no jury in America would ever convict her!''|[[Tagline]] for ''[[I Spit on Your Grave]]''}}

 

 

The character, or someone close to the character, has been [[Rape as Drama|raped]]. And now it's time to settle the score. It might develop into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] or [[Axe Crazy]] vigilantism, but it might also take a far more sophisticated turn.

Vengeance for violation is a subset of "Crime Pursued by Vengeance," one of the ''[[Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations]]'' recognized by Georges Polti.

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts took violent revenge during his childhood on a pederast soldier named Donovan. Guts was raped after his adoptive father Gambino sold him to Donovan for the night. During the battle the following day, Guts followed Donovan when he ventured away from the main group and [[Unfriendly Fire|brutally]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|killed him.]] In addition, his vendetta against Griffith in general after the Eclipse has very heavy undertones of this, given {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|what Griffith did]] to his [[Love Interest]] Casca right in front of him, and [[Mind Rape|the way it all but mirrored Guts' own traumatic childhood experience]]}}.

* Suboshi tries to rape Miaka in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' because his [[Love Interest]] Yui was raped {{spoiler|or so she thinks}}, and blames it on Miaka for not answering her calls for help and obsessing over Tamahome, whom Yui also liked. {{spoiler|In actuality, the only reason Miaka didn't help Yui was because she couldn't ''hear'' Yui from outside of the book after changing out of her school uniform.}}

'''Maria: ([[Power Echoes|ominous echo]])''' [[Kamehame Hadoken|"Mystral Window!!"]] }}

* In ''[[Narutaru]]'', {{spoiler|after the infamous "test tube" incident at the hands of [[Alpha Bitch|Aki]] [[Complete Monster|Honda]] and her vicious [[Girl Posse]], [[Lonely Rich Kid]] Hiroko Kaizuka gets her hands on one of the series Shadow Dragons and proceeds to take violent revenge upon the Girl Posse in what proves to be her [[Start of Darkness]]. The absolute worst death of the entire rampage is reserved for Aki Honda herself, who gets raped with the Shadow Dragon's clawed finger before being ripped in half}}.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, the vigilante Pagan got her start by extracting violent revenge on the men who raped her sister (who later committed suicide).

* ''[[Fables]]'' makes this Snow White's backstory. Yes, the Seven Dwarfs.

 

== Fan Fiction ==

* Kid and Soul pull this off after what happens to Maka in the [[Soul Eater]] fanfiction [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6340224/1/Scars_and_Stitches Scars and Stitches].

 

* ''[[The Brave One]]'' - after being brutalized by a gang of thugs (who also kill her boyfriend and steal her dog), the protagonist gradually turns vigilante.

* In ''[[Kill Bill]]'', one of the "sidequests" is to murder the guy who raped her while she was in a coma. The main storyline (and the backstory of one of the antagonists) also have heavy overtones of Rape And Revenge.

* This is a major theme in the 1987 Australian film ''Shame''.

* [[Sucker Punch]]: Baby Doll was raped by her step father before she seeks revenge on all the [[Big Bad]] males who are implied to have raped at least some of the ladies in the asylum.

 

== Literature ==

How much a freeborn woman’s favour costs. }}

* The climax of ''Is-A-Man'' by [[J. T. Edson]] has Annie Singing Bear taking revenge on four Mexicans who raped a member of her tribe. She kills three of them and the fourth, who shows cowardice rather than fighting her honourably, she castrates.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* Renee Walker of ''[[24]]'' stabs her rapist [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|15 times with a table knife.]]

* ''The Judge'', a 30-minute syndicated courtroom drama that aired in the late 1980s, had a case where the litigants—three college-aged students, a man and two women—were involved in a cycle of rape and revenge; all three claimed "he/she raped me over and over again." In the end, Judge Franklin (the show's main protagonist) was appalled and scolded them all ... and was so disgusted that he refused to end the proceeding with his standard "be good to each other" tagline.

 

== Music ==

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84 Caleb Meyer]" by Gillian Welch.

* "Hate" by [[Machinae Supremacy]].

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The [[Dungeons & Dragons]] setting ''[[Scarred Lands]]'' takes this trope to cosmological levels when the goddess Tanil is raped by her own father, one of the titans. Who then proceeds to stalk his daughter-granddaughter Idra. This incident is one of the reasons why the gods decide to end the reign of the titans once and for all. Tanil gets to kill her dad, but the whole [[Break the Cutie|ordeal]] gives her a permanent depression and transforms her daughter from a [[Chaotic Good]] [[Ethical Slut]] to a [[Chaotic Neutral]] with heavy overtones of being cold and calculating. The fact that the [[Love Goddess]] has ceased to be Good is one of the many traits that define this post-apocalypse fantasy setting as a [[Crapsack World]].

 

== Theatre ==

* [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' has this in spades.

 

* The player character in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'' can decide how she wants to react to being raped, from [[Rape Is Love]] all the way through all three stages of this trope.

* This is {{spoiler|Ran's}} backstory in the Japanese video game ''[[Criminal Girls]].''